Love At First Sight / Animated Films

• Many fairy tales, particularly those turned into Disney animated films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, etc. The ones that don't do this tend to stand out a little (e.g. Beauty and the Beast).
  • Aladdin and Jasmine fall in love at first sight, but by some animating/writing/voice acting miracle, it comes across as completely natural, and no one is in any doubt that they're perfect for each other.
  • Sleeping Beauty features a slight variation on the trope in that Prince Phillip appears to fall in Love at First Note when he goes head over heels for Aurora's singing. Plus, when Phillip first met (baby) Aurora as a little boy, he felt more disdain than love.
  • Aversions include the thusly stated Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas (it takes them a song that possibly took days before their first kiss), Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog (not until they escape the frog hunters).
  • In Tangled, downplayed. They don't really fall in love until their escape from the Kingdom's soldiers — but they do both have a moment of speechless immobility at their first clear look at the other, from which they do not emerge until someone else demands a reaction.
  • In Frozen, Princess Anna has fallen in love with Prince Hans at first sight and immediately accepts his proposal. Her sister Elsa is incredulous, and immediately rejects the proposal by saying "You can't marry a guy you just met!" When Anna tells Kristoff this, he is convinced she is making a serious mistake. As it turns out, Kristoff and Elsa are absolutely right with Hans turning out to be a despicable villain knowingly exploiting her crushing loneliness to manipulate her and eventually seize the throne of Arendelle. She and her actual love interest lean more towards Third Date Marriage since they decide it's a good idea to take it a little slower.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
    • The trope is darkly demonstrated in this movie, where the villain Frollo develops an instant case of lust for the gypsy Esmeralda. His musical number concerning her doesn't say anything about loving her; it just goes on and on about his desire.
    • Compare Frollo's song, "Hellfire", to Quasimodo's, in which he sings with innocent joy about how this wondrous feeling he's discovered must be like "Heaven's Light". Then again, we're talking about Disney here — they gave Hunchback a (mostly) happy ending.
    • Phoebus is attracted to Esmeralda and takes an interest in her wit. She doesn't fall for him right away, but it's pretty quick.
  • Disney's The Sword in the Stone has a one-sided variation done, twice. Both times were two female squirrels that instantly fall smitten with the squirrel-forms of Wart and Merlin. They try to avoid their affections and even try to talk them out of it, stating they aren't real squirrels, but they either don't believe them or don't understand. When they change back, the old lady squirrel is horrified and enraged, but the little red girl squirrel is visibly heartbroken.
• Subverted in Shrek. Fiona at first assumes Shrek is her true love when he rescues her, but things go pear shaped when she finds out Shrek is an ogre and that he was just sent to rescue her for someone else. They do eventually fall in love over the next couple days, though.
• An American Tail: Tony and Bridget instantly falling in love while she's giving a speech at an anti-cat rally.
• WALL•E:
  • WALL•E falls in love with EVE the first time he sees her. Possibly justified in that EVE is the first living thing he's seen in centuries other than cockroaches: Every other robot in the area has long since broken down.
  • John and Mary, who start considering it upon accidentally touching hands. Though it is the first human physical contact either of them have ever made.
• Carl/Ellie from Up: "Y'know, you don't talk very much. I like you!" At the very least it seems to be one-sided from Carl, given he didn't seem able to talk whenever she was around.
• In Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, this happens with Mickey Mouse and Princess Minnie. Not only are they smitten, the world vanishes, they float in purple and pink clouds, random flowers come out of nowhere for him to give to her, romantic music swells, they hold hands and float until Daisy interrupts. It's so over the top it's adorable.
• Barbie and Ken in Toy Story 3. It seems crazy, but it's like they were made for each other!
• Subverted in Rio, where Blu becomes attracted to Jewel the second he sees her, until she attacks him, TWICE. This is reconstructed though once they have a duet at the samba club.
• In Wreck-It Ralph, this is played straight with Felix, who instantly falls in love with Calhoun once her soldiers stop trying to shoot him and he gets a good look at her. Calhoun has to warm up to Felix over time.
• In Hotel Transylvania, this effect is a magical form of attraction called a "zing", and saying that two people "zinged" means that they have succumbed to this trope. Dracula and Mavis's mother Martha zinged, as well as Mavis and Johnny. Dracula finding out that Mavis and Johnny "zinged" convinces him that they are meant to be together, and he spends the remainder of the movie reuniting them.
  • In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Dracula himself becomes the first person to have zinged a second time, with the cruise ship director Ericka. It's one-sided, as Ericka is a Van Helsing and is plotting to kill him and all monsters. However, getting to know him better causes the attraction to be mutual.
• In Strange Magic, this is how the love potion operates. The one dusted falls for the first person they see. It may be subverted though in that genuinely falling in love with someone else breaks the effects of the potion, as shown with Dawn and Sunny, and Marianne and Bog King, thereby suggesting the love potion causes intense infatuation at first sight, rather than true love.
• In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree, the Human Twilight Sparkle immediately gets a crush on Timber Spruce as soon as she meets him, and he flirts back.
• Goat Story - Old Prague Legends: Jemmy immediately falls for Katy when she offers him nails while he is working on the bridge.
• Hercules (Pure Magic) has the title character instantly fall in love with Deianira at the Olympic awards ceremony. Unfortunately, Deianira doesn't return the feelings, and she's meant to marry King Eurystheus (although she changes her mind about that and decides to only marry a man who can keep his promise to love her).
• Gnomeo & Juliet: The titular characters, while their camouflage clothes conceal their actual colors.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: ZigZagged - Mario and Peach seem to have this look the moment they lay eyes on each other for the first time... before Peach snaps out of it to deliver a judo flip, realizing he's an intruder to the Mushroom Kingdom castle. Later on, however, the film does go on to indicate a mutual, budding romantic interest between them.

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